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[quote=Anonymous]Last year when DS was in first grade I noticed how disruptive some of the kids were in his classroom. I decided to wait until the teacher parent conference when we could review where he was, how he was doing to assess if the disruptive kids were impacting his learning. What I discovered was he was doing great, even considering the situation. The teacher knows about the disruptions and tries to do the best with what she has. I agree from my observations there is a lot of independent learning going on while the teachers pull asides groups for focused groups. This independent learning is fine for kids that are self motivated, able to stay on task etc, not so good if the kids need extra help and attention. I also see ways that I need to work with my kids at home to ensure they are getting what they need that might not happen in the classroom. A teacher's aid would be wonderful but its not going to happen. I'm happy for the time being to stay in public school and to assist the teacher by working with my child at home.

In terms of how kids end up in the groups they do - they do a lot of early assessements to figure out what reading level, math etc the kids are in. In K the kids moved between the groups as they improved in reading math etc. I saw less of this in first grade - the higher reading, math, spelling groups were together the entire year. Not sure about 2nd grade yet as its just starting. [/quote]

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